As it periodically has been in the past, the United States is currently the target of much of the foreign investment in real estate globally.

With a stable and transparent market and an economy that appears to be steadily improving without the fits and starts experienced in other regions, the U.S. has become the first stop for foreign real estate investors.

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While the Eurozone struggled throughout 2014, and as the UK economy appeared to slow towards the end of last year, the US economy went from strength to strength.